Between ColdFusion Builder 2 and 3, I used Sublime Text editor for about a year. One of the best features that Sublime Text had was fuzzy searches.
For example, on code assist, for a cfqueryparam attribute, I could type “var” and get type=”cf_sql_varchar”. In ColdFusion Builder, you’d have to type “cf_sql_v” to get the same. May not seem like much, but when your brain is focusing on the differences, why should I have to type “cf_sql_” when everyone has that?
Another example would be when using the “Goto Anything” feature, I regularly knew approximately what file name I was looking for, but maybe not exact. So if I type “page”, I may get 30 results. Then I continue to type to get “pagedsp” and find my file “pagedisplay.cfm”. Very handy and quick.
In ColdFusion Builder 3, everything relies upon starting from the beginning of line and pretty exact. It’s very rigid. The file content searches also always take a bit of time.
The alleviate the file search issue, I installed the InstaSeach plugin : http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/instasearch
This plugin instantly returns fuzzy results if your keyword matches text inside the current open file, a file name or content inside a file — INSTANTLY –
Highly recommend to replace your Search > File and Search > Search
To alleviate the code assist issue:
Go to Preferences->ColdFusion->Profiles->Editor->Code Assist and select option ‘Filter Proposals Containing Text’
Thanks to Ramchandra Kulkarni for this tip.
Now I can just type “v”, arrow down once to pass up “cf_sql_longvarchar” and hit enter.
It’s the little things in life.
